Consolata Missionaries Quotes

#1. Things that appear to be complicated - and that in fact are complicated - are very simple where motives are concerned. Motive is the root of desire, so to speak. The important thing is to seek out the root. Dig beneath the complicated surface of reality

Haruki Murakami

#2. No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

F. Paul Wilson

#3. The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." - Foreign

Walter Isaacson

#4. I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard.

Amy Schumer

#5. And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time.'
'That accident was not my fault.'
'You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.

Rachel Caine

#6. Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

George MacDonald

#7. All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work - and that which is its source - as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost..

Ayn Rand

#8. The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#9. Quitting is leading too.

Nelson Mandela

#10. Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas ... omnes artes perdocet.]

Plautus

#11. The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.

Peter M. Senge

#12. The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Will Rogers

#13. She threatened a Negro man who worked for her father that if he didn't take (have sex with) her she would swear he tried rape.
He had no choice, except that he quit working for them. And from then until she finished high school,
she managed it several times with other Negroes

Malcolm X

#14. Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Lewis Gordon

#15. What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

Wolfgang Pauli